Gary Kemp Quotes
Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
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I hope to get out before they start football next year.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
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I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
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We don't consider black, urban films as 'indies,' though many of them are shot for under $10 million which is kind of the definition of an indie.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
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Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.
